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[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 82 points 7 months ago (8 children)

But I am le tired

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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 64 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Well have a nap

ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!!!

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[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well have a nap

ZEN INSTALL ZE GENTOO!!

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[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Then have a nap again while you compile GTK/qt/and whatever else

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[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

Just Sway, don't use QT with Gentoo.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

I said lunch, not launch.

(stolen from meme for other country, please accept)

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[–] yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

confused german look Hans, zey konfond is again

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[–] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 2 points 7 months ago

It's fine, they've sorted out sleep mode on most hardware a while ago

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 120 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

windon't

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Windidn't

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[–] DanceMomsSavedMe@piefed.social 36 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Reminds me of the old "Genesis does what Nintendon't" ads

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[–] pheelicks@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago

Did Nintendo sue them by any chance?

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 104 points 7 months ago (3 children)

C'est l'année de l'ordinateur Linux!

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Super! (j'utilise Arch, au fait)

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[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 5 points 7 months ago

J'utilise Arch, du coup!

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

C'est l'année de l'ordinateur Linux!

It’s the year of the Linux computer!

Oh man! I thought this was going to be the rare case where you could actually say the thing in French with fewer characters, but French loses by 1. Dommage! And English doesn’t even have a contraction for “the,” of which there are two in this short sentence!

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[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 97 points 7 months ago (16 children)

Meanwhile in the UK our government is strengthening ties to palintir. We always have to be the losers of Europe

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[–] Teppa@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

You guys literally wrote the book on Orwellian governments.

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[–] Krzd@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

Eh, Germany is currently doing the same, so we're both losing

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[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Afaik France still has contracts with Palantir

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[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

No doubt, but this is a step in the right direction. If it works it proves the value of further breaking away from the US. While we still buy whatever they're selling, and provide support loading their bombs for their wars.

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[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 7 months ago

Giving an erratic actor root access to all yiur systems seems foolish, even for a blood drenched imperial so-and-so.

It is now clear that is what windows is.

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[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

UK is US-lite.

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[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Nah. That's Canada. They even have their own MAGAts/deep south in Alberta.

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[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

Feck, wish I could argue with you!

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[–] sunnytimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

maple maga

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[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

Which is at least good on pancakes.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

Hey at least you aren't getting natural gas from those guys. You know those extra super duper bad guys.

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[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Hey. Thats not true. Youre just outside europe.

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[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

The UK is obviously in Europe... They just pushed us out into the sea one night cos we're embarrassing.

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[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I mean, technically y'all aren't part of Europe anymore...

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[–] p4rzivalrp2@piefed.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Yeah they are? Just not the eu

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[–] unknowablenight@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago

Nah, dude, the island floated too far away, now they're a continent

🤣 1

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 74 points 7 months ago

They won’t go back. once you start getting used to having logic that responds to your commands it really is hard to give that up to ai slop.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 148 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

I'd be interested to try their distro when it's done...

I'll just need to remove the french language pack first. Let me look up instructions for that real quick... Oh no...

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[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Mandrake reborn? :-D

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[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago

That would actually be nice.

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[–] mimavox@piefed.social 5 points 7 months ago

Well, that's Mageia: https://www.mageia.org/en/about/

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[–] minijackson@programming.dev 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I haven't found any confirmation anywhere, but I know some of the people at DINUM are active NixOS maintainers, and I've seen some NixOS-based development in that space:

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[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago

As a french and daily nixos user, this is great.

Nixos or a derivative would make a ton of sense for an administration, just load the same config on all the computers and voila! Each department can have it's own variation of the config.

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[–] banshee@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago

Neat!

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[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 2 points 7 months ago

Just change keyboard layout from Azerty

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[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 months ago

Luckily it's France, not Quebec. France is much more amenable to providing documentation in other languages.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 70 points 7 months ago

Between this and expedition 33, France is coming up with some Ws these days.

[–] olivier@lemmy.fait.ch 50 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Let's hope they'll use Gendarmerie's almost 20 years of experience on that.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 23 points 7 months ago

Glad I found this comment. It was my first thought when seeing the headline: haven't they already been doing that for decades?

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[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I like that they went with "Gendbuntu" instead of a boring official sounding acronym.

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[–] jestho@lemmy.zip 50 points 7 months ago

J'utilise le Arch de Triomphe, btw

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 43 points 7 months ago

Vive la France

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 35 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Wexit.

[–] mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

Winxit (pronounced win shit)

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 82 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Combining French snobbery with Linux snobbery could set off some kind of chain reaction.

How soon until Quebec joins the Bloc de L'nux?

[–] BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Like Tux but with cool sunglasses and cigarettes.

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[–] okmko@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Don't forget the baret and baguette.

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[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

You think there might be a self-sustaining snobbery fission chain reaction?

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[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

How soon until Quebec joins the Bloc de L'nux?

Wasn't this foretold in Infinite Jest?

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[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 53 points 7 months ago (4 children)

L'Nux

[–] mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 19 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Le Nux

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[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago*

Hello, this is Le Nus Torvalds, and I pronounce Le Nux as Le Nux.

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[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Why not Des Nux?

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago

La or Le?

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[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 26 points 7 months ago (1 child)

They should reboot mandrake/mandriva. As I recall it was a french project anyway.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

AFAICT its creator it's entirely focused on the mobile challenge know, working on /e/OS for his Murena company.

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[+] webkitten@piefed.social 50 points 7 months ago (13 children)

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 63 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Probably more likely to go for SUSE, since it's European but still Enterprisey.

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Sure, we have Suze at home.

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[–] loics2@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah or let's create a Picon distro to avoid name conflicts. And it tastes better.

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 42 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

With the resources they have -- and the goal of having security and control over their digital supply lines -- I don't see why they wouldn't roll their own distro. Maybe heavily based on an existing distro (looking at you, Debian) but something that's completely under their control, so they can choose for themselves exactly what packages are included, what security settings are used as defaults, when and if to update things, etc.

Edit: after (gasp) actually reading the article, it seems that each department within the French government will be responsible for their own implementation, which means they might all end up using different distros in different departments.

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[–] Archer@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

That seems odd, that just means higher costs for support. Pick one distro then do custom packages or Ansible for your stuff that you want on top but don’t go a million different ways

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Going a millions different ways is more in the FOSS spirit than starting off by saying 'everyone will use this list of software'. They can't know what will be the best fit for everyone so they're approaching it flexibly.

They can iterate in the future or come up with standards as they need, but in the beginning it's better to try a lot of different things to see what people discover.

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[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

its smart for a start cause everyone cooks and then they can share the best parts

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[–] Wfh@lemmy.zip 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's either a political move (nobody wants to be responsible for and/or depend on another ministry), or 4D chess where they would prevent a single vulnerability to expose the entire user base.

Fun fact, Orange (former France Telecom) has developed its own distro for the best part of the last 25 years. It's.. very peculiar.

By who are we kidding. The actual work will be offloaded to the shittiest contractor available (Capgemini/Atos/SopraSteria), it will take 5 years of the planned 2 and will cost 3.5 times the initial budget, for something sensibly shittier than an uBlue script.

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Nobody gets fired for buying IBM ... apparently.

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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

buys the whole of IBM

boss: I... but... yet... finances... ruined...

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

So when are we getting OS/2 5.0?

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[–] manxu@piefed.social 5 points 7 months ago

You are so mean! I had just stopped crying over not getting the new version of OS/2 the other week!

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago (6 children)

This is how you renegotiate with MS.

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[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 50 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Hopefully the time for negotiations is past

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[–] spizzat2@lemmy.zip 12 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I think/hope this is their "Find Out" era.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Someone way better at editing gifs than me should edit the 5th element "We're sending somebody in to negotiate!" Scene to have tux superimposed over Bruce Willis

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[–] Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

but it is vador taking the shot and saying i am altering the deal pray i dont alter it further, then neo coming up with the mini gun hellicopter out side the window, fuck yeah!

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[–] Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works 1 point 7 months ago

then True lies shooting the terrorist strapped to a tomahawk at the chopper

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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

just ask grok, duh

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 46 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Zomg, they will not allow you to sudo remove le French language!!!!

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Okay... Fire ze missiles!

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[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 child)

But I am le tired

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[–] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 11 points 7 months ago

well have a nap... AND ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Listen carefully, i shall say this only once!

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 6 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

It is I, le Tuxue, and I am here to help you install fallen penguin with the big boobies mod. (DE theme?)

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[–] Centaur@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yes of course Herr Gruber 🙃

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[–] Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

As a French, I wait before believing it. The DINUM does not really hold authority above the rest of the government and all the other administrations. Our gendarmerie switched to ubuntu more than 10 years ago, but the police planned to change all its computers to accomodate to windows 11, and the DINUM advocated to for dong to stop using american cloud providers, but we have a shit ton of public stuff running on american cloud, including the health data hub.

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago

So just curious, what does the DINUM do exactly?

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[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So I can no longer make the joke about removing french language packs using rm -fr /?

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

No, you can make it even harder now that they're going linux

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[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I just tried this! OMG whadoidowhadoidowhadoido

lol

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[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago*

I know eveything in France is not sunshine and rainbows, but come on, cheap high speed internet, fantastic pedestrian infrastructure, great social welfare program, and now linux being adopted by the government?

France seems pretty cool to me